Pin-ticket



P. T STOFFEL. PIN TICKET (No Model.)

No. 591,147. Patented Oct. 5,1897.

NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

PETER T. STOFFEL, OF RAOINE, WISCONSIN.

PIN-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,147, dated October 5,1897.

Application filed April 19, 1897.

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER T. STOFFEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide pin-tickets having certain advantages hereinafter enumerated; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective rear View of a preferred form of pinticket constructed according to my invention and attached to a piece of fabric. Figs. 2 and 3 of said drawings represent perspective views of the pin-ticket as it is furnished to the trade, these latter figures serving to illustrate reverse and obverse sides of said pinticket.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents a ticket such as is commonly utilized in connection with merchandise of various kinds, especially fabrics, and which serves as a base upon which to place memoranda concerning said merchandise, this ticket being provided with a two-prong attaching-pin.

In accordance with my invention the ticketattaching pin may be made in various forms having the same generic features as the preferred form herein shown and more particularly described.

The pin is made of any suitable gage of sufficiently flexible wire and connectedto the ticket by mechanical means to remainin permanent union therewith.

In any of the various forms of my invention there is a length 17 of the pin-wire parallel to the ticket A upon the obverse side of the same, and another length c'of said wire extends through said ticket to constitute a ton gue-pron g that is normally at a right angle to the reverse side of said ticket, the longitudinal dimension of this tongue-prong being greater than the aforesaid length 19 of pinwire that is at all times parallel to the aforesaid ticket upon its obverse side. The remainder of the pin-wire also extends through the ticket and constitutes a prong that is Serial No. 632,800. (No model.)

bent to form a clasp for the other ,prong or tongue c when the latter is bent from normal position to a plane parallel to said ticket in rear of the latter.

While the clasp-prong of the pin may be bent in various ways, it is preferable, as herein shown, to shape the same so as to form an ogee cl and a stem 6, the latter being shown normally parallel to the pin-tongue c previous to the bending down and securing of the latter.

The tongue-prong c of the pin is passed at least twice through the fabric or other material to which it is practical to attach the ticket, and is then bent down to come parallel to the reverse side of said ticket. down tongue-prong is engaged with the claspprong of the pin, and thus the ticket is readily secured in place against automatic displacement, this being one of the important advantages of my invention.

The bent- In that form of my invention herein shown the bent-down tongue-prong c of the pin is brought within that loop of the ogee portion of the clasp-prong that is normally open toward the rear, and the stem portiom e of said clasp-prong is bent down to extend obliquely across said tongue-prong, said stem being then parallel with and against the other loop of the ogee, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, this latter loop of said ogee constituting a hump or shoulder that abuts the aforesaid tongueprong and aids in holding the same firmly in place. v

In any form of my invention it is essential that the clasp prong of the pin cross the tongue-prong in such manner as to prevent the latter from automatically detaching itself.

Pin-tickets of the description above given can be readily applied to fabrics and various other merchandise, and once attached they cannot be automatically loosened. The pin will also hold two or more pieces of dry goods together, and the ticket does not have to be attached to an edge of the material to be marked, nor is there necessity for getting at both sides of an article to which said ticket is to be fastened. The fact that the tongueprong of the pin is necessarily passed twice through the article to which the ticket is to be attached is in itself a feature of important advantage of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ainerchandise-marking device comprising a ticket and a pin for attaching the same, this pin being a Wire having a portion thereof parallel with the obverse side of the ticket, another portion or tongue extending through said ticket to normally stand at an angle to the same, and the remainder of said Wire also extended through the aforesaid ticket but bent in rear thereof to form an ogee and stem, this configuration constituting a clasp for the tongue.

2. A merchandise-marking ticket and a twoprong pin for attaching the same; both prongs being extended through the ticket and one of the prongs configured to form a clasp for the other when the latter is bent over from normal position, the latter prong being necessarily passed at least twice through the material to Which the ticket may be attached.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

PETER T. STOFFEL. WVitnesses:

G. N. FRATT, A. F. ERICHSON. 

